Jeff Bezos: Dad emigrated from Cuba alone at 16, 'his grit, determination, optimism are inspiring' (via CNBCMakeIt)
, Mike Bezos came to America from Cuba wearing a jacket his mother had hand-stitched from cleaning rags. He was a teenager traveling by himself and he spoke almost no English.
"My parents were not allowed to go into the airport with me, so they dropped me off," says Mike Bezos in the video, a more complete version of which is available onMike Bezos says he could only bring with him three pairs of pants, three shirts, three pairs of underwear and one pair of shoes."His mom imagined America must be super cold. So she made him something special for his journey, which we still have," Jeff Bezos says in the video.
Bezos' father first stayed in Camp Matecumbe, a refugee camp in Florida, for three weeks. He was later sent to Wilmington, Delaware to attend high school, where he got a scholarship to go to college in Albuquerque.
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